- Date
- August 28, 1994, 11:30 local (17:30 UTC)
- Place
- Caldwell, ID
- Injuries
- 2 minor
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N73617Boeing A75N1
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report October 13, 1995
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19940828023809A
- Case key
- 42008
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Probable cause
The jamming of the right main landing gear brake due to an accumulation of a gummy deposit.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
After touchdown, the right main gear brake locked up due to a gummy deposit that would not allow it to release. As the landing roll continued, the aircraft slowly nosed over.
Factual narrative
On August 28, 1994, approximately 1130 mountain daylight time (MDT), a Boeing A75N1, N73617, nosed over during the landing roll at Caldwell Industrial Airport, Caldwell, Idaho. The commercial pilot and his passenger received minor injuries, and the aircraft sustained substantial damage. The personal pleasure flight, which departed the same location about five minutes earlier, was being operated in visual meteorological conditions at the time of the accident. No flight plan had been filed, and there was no report of an ELT activation.
According to the pilot, the right brake locked up during the landing roll, and as the landing roll progressed, the aircraft slowly nosed over on the runway. It was later discovered that there was a gummy deposit on the right brake mechanism which would not allow the brake to release.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N73617
- Reported as
- Boeing A75N1
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 75-3702
- Airframe hours
- 3,809
- Engine
- Continental R-670, 220 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Personal · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Renfro, Robert D.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic
- Last inspection
- Annual · November 5, 1993 · 5 hours before
- Airport
- U35 · Caldwell Industrial, runway 30, 5,500 × 100 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 49
- Certificate
- Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 2, Valid Medical--w/ waivers/lim
- Seat
- Right
- Flight hours
- 5,432 total · 21 in this make and model · 58 in the last 90 days · 34 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- Calm
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- 81 °F
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.